What to Download

Installation has two parts:

Intel® SDK for OpenCL™ Applications Package

Driver and library(runtime) packages

The SDK includes components to develop applications: IDE integration, offline compiler, debugger, and other tools. Usually on a development machine the driver/runtime package is also installed for testing. For deployment you can pick the package that best matches the target environment.

The illustration below shows some example install configurations.

SDK Packages

Please note: A GPU/CPU driver package or CPU-only runtime package is required in addition to the SDK to execute applications

Intel® SDK for OpenCL™ Applications 2017 R2 for Windows* (64-bit)

This is a standalone release for customers who do not need integration with the Intel® Media Server Studio. The standard Windows graphics driver packages contains the driver and runtime library components necessary to run OpenCL applications. This package provides components for OpenCL development.

Intel validates the intel-opencl-r5.0 driver on CentOS 7.2 and 7.3 when running the following 64-bit kernels:

Linux 4.7 kernel patched for OpenCL

Linux 4.4 kernel patched for Intel® Media Server Studio 2017 R3

Although Intel validates and provides technical support only for the above Linux kernels on CentOS 7.2 and 7.3, other distributions may be adapted by utilizing our generic operating system installation steps as well as MSS 2017 R3 installation steps.

In addition: Intel also validates Ubuntu 16.04.2 when running the following 64-bit kernel:

•Ubuntu 16.04.2 default 4.8 kernel

Ubuntu 16.04 with the default kernel works fairly well but some core features (i.e. device enqueue, SVM memory coherency, VTune support) won’t work without kernel patches. This configuration has been minimally validated to prove that it is viable to suggest for experimental use, but it is not fully supported or certified.

The standard Intel graphics drivers for Windows* include components needed to run OpenCL* and Intel® Media SDK applications on processors with Intel® Iris™ Graphics or Intel® HD Graphics on Windows* OS.

You can use the Intel Driver Update Utility to automatically detect and update your drivers and software. Using the latest available graphics driver for your processor is usually recommended.

Supported OpenCL devices:

Intel graphics (GPU)

CPU

For the full list of Intel® Architecture processors with OpenCL support on Intel Graphics under Windows*, refer to the Release Notes.